Volume One of The Crimean Circle is a historical novel about the Jews in the Crimean War. For the first time in modern history, Jews are forcibly conscripted to serve in an army to fight a war for a nation that dispises, mistreats, and tries to convert them. They are trained by a Jew-hating sergeant and a Jewish corporal who has lost the love of his father and the faith in his God. With the help of the Jewish corporal the pious young Jews learn to...